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One Minute of Science Per Five Hours of Cable News

Posted by Zonk on Monday March 17, 2008 @11:21PM from the you-don't-learn-things-by-watching-the-news dept.

ideonexus writes "The Pew group has released its annual study into the state of news media. They conclude that science and technology content is a rare treat for cable newscast viewers; some five hours of programming could pass with the average viewer seeing only one minute of science news coverage."

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Re:huh? by locster · 2008-03-18 00:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I would of thought the two would of gone hand in hand.

I would have thought the two would have gone hand in hand.

There, fixed that for you. Maybe you should watch more educational programming.
Re:Slashdot? by BaphometLaVey · 2008-03-18 00:42 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I agree. Strange thing is, there are two extra bold tags, I don't remember adding, and I did close the other ones. Oh well. (Strange thing to post as anonymous though)